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Whether you love your local shops or own a small business yourself, help us shine the spotlight on the UK's smallest retailers. Share a photo or video of your favourite local business, a great gift you’ve located by eschewing the big retailers or an amazing display you’ve come across in a small shop window – and tell us what's so great about your favourite shop.

Pink Elephant Clothing is an independent, new and exciting clothing brand started in 2013 which looks to create a brand based around the rich heritage and history associated with British fashion.

The company was set up due to the real gap in the market for own designed quality products, made in Great Britain and looks to sell to customers keen to buy products with these strong traditions at its roots.

The brand will look to expand its collection over the coming months to incorporate new designs and new garments.

Betty French is a mother and son family run business that brings the full spectrum of jewellery style to Broomhill. Whether it’s a specially commissioned one off piece, an attention grabbing piece of retro or a smaller everyday touch of class Betty French can help. Whether it’s silver or gold you’re after, costume or vintage, second hand or new - we sell a range of jewellery that is individually selected to meet your needs. And because we strive for total customer satisfaction if we haven’t got it, we’ll get it or offer help to find it. We also offer jewellery repairs and commissions from our on site jeweller Brian Saynor. With experience in design, stone settings and remodelling Brian is always happy to give free advice to Betty French customers. We have a fabulous selection of vintage brooches from the 1950’s and student friendly bargains with thoroughly modern appeal. Call in any time for a free jewellery clean and check and to meet our Bosnian rescue dog Hope.

Designer Makers @ 21 is a friendly, welcoming place, where 11 local crafters work and sell their wares. The gallery, exhibiting the rich variety of crafts practiced at DM@21, is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays as are the studios. Designer Makers are available to demonstrate and talk about their crafts, discuss commissions or take bookings for workshops.

DM@21 was set up by the Diss Corn Hall Trust and made possible by the generosity of the owners of the building, the Ipswich and Diss Area Quakers.

This is my favourite little place for tea and cake. It's hidden away in the back of a vintage emporium in Crystal Palace. It feels like your transported back in time with china tea services and lace doilies on the tables.

Lemon drizzle and a personal cafatiere of great coffee for under a fiver, that's my perfect Sunday.

Her Citi is a small independently owned Café & Shop, selling a wide range of pre-loved items ranging from designer clothes, to jewellery & furniture. It's also a wonderful venue for open mic music sessions.

Independent shop specialising in restored and painted shabby chic furniture from UK and Europe. Also stocks vintage and antique homeware as well as throws, rugs, cushions, table linen, baskets and unique craft items. Based in small market town in the beautiful Waveney Valley on the Norfolk/Suffolk border.

Ed Miliband visited shops in Crystal Palace on the UK's first ever Small Business Saturday with Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna MP and local MP Steve Reed. He tweeted: "Today is a great opportunity to show your support for local businesses in your community. #SmallBizSatUK"

We're a small independent local shop. 7 years ago we started a website which became one of the biggest sources of information on washable nappies in the UK. Four years ago we set up our shop in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, and it remains the only specialist reusable nappy shop in the UK. We are proud of our achievements - growing the business from nothing - especially as we believe that what we do is helping our customers save money and keep up to 1.7 tonnes of rubbish each out of landfill!

We're supporting Small Business Saturday because we all rely on customers making ethical choices in their shopping. We're lucky to live in Hebden Bridge, where a lively network of shops and shoppers make informed decisions in their shopping, and hope that this initiative will bring benefits to local businesses across the country.

On a bitterly chilly November morning, a wise looking, ageing fellow asks me, “How much is it for that Dylan record?”

Perhaps this is an appropriate question, as I am sitting with a piping brew in a record shop behind a (makeshift) counter, but I point out to him that I am not a qualified member of staff, yet..

“That's £4.99!” exclaims Gareth Kenyon, the manager of the record department in “High Street Books”, which, as the name suggests, is also a book shop.

“The book shop was here first, but it's now been transformed into a quaint, traditional record shop”, says Gareth.

Walking through the shop, which is situated in New Mills, a small town in the suburbs of Manchester,it looks like it could have been used as an air-raid shelter during the Great War due to the arched shape of the ceilings, (although actually the downstairs was used as a butcher's shop).

High Street Books was initially a second hand book shop that started trading in the 70s, but the original owner ran it more as a hobby than a fully functioning business, and as such, hoards of records accumulated in the shop. Three years ago, he sold it to local entrepreneur, Adam Morris, who, with Gareth's help, has transformed the place into a little slice of magic.

“You couldn't move down here when we first moved in, it was packed to the rafters of rotting books.

“It took a year to figure out what we could keep, and since then it's been a long process of clearing the place up, getting stock in, and starting an online business as well.”

New Mills may be off the radar for most people, but High Street Books is most definitely one the of Peak District's hidden gems. It's fantastic to see such an eclectic mix of people, all caught up in the serendipity of the place; and long may it continue.

I am extremely fortunate to be considered part of the staff when I return from Uni for christmas- I encourage everyone else to visit our little hotbed of culture!

This stunning work is by a group of crafters and designer who are giving new life to a previously empty shop with working studios and a gallery shop. This shared creativity and vibrant atmosphere embraces traditional and contemporary crafts with an inspiring range of textiles, prints, sculpture, mosaics, baskets, stained glass and digital print. www.designermakers21.co.uk

JB Banks in Cockermouth - a traditional independent hardware shop where you can buy absolutely anything. And they even have "four candles" for sale on the counter for all those determined to come in and tell the old joke!

This is a wonderful emporium for the home. A shop full of gorgeous accessories both practical and decorative. A studio with a large array of fabrics, wallpapers, flooring, paints, lighting and furniture. And, interior design, upholstery, curtain & blind making, soft furnishings - in fact, Dupere Interior Design is best described as a one-stop shop which will turn your house into a home.